EDUCATION
2009: M.A, Business and Economics Journalism, Columbia UniversityGraduate School of Journalism, New York. Interdisciplinary program includes courses in journalistic methods, business writing, finance, and corporate strategy.
2008: B.A. (Hons.), History and Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI. Member, Phi Beta Kappa Society. Award-winning honors thesis, entitled, “Anglo-French Relations and Radical Politics: The Case of GWM Reynolds, 1835-1853,” was a biography of a Victorian journalist, politician and author; and was subsequently excerpted in Notes and Queries.
2006-2007: Visiting Student (History and English), Pembroke College,University of Oxford, UK
EXPERIENCE
Freelancer, October 2007-Present: Published in Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Statesman (U.K), Mint (Wall Street Journal Indian subsidiary), Glimpse (National Geographic’s youth magazine), Providence Journal, Parents League Review (New York education journal), and Columbia Journalism Review. Cover natural resources and commodity markets; development, globalization and political economy; technology, design, and media; and regulatory law. Blog about foreign policy and political economy for Forbes.com.
Executive Director, Public Business, October 2010-present:leading a small, independent and collaborative nonprofit, investing in public interest reporting about the wider economic, environmental and social implications of business actions.
Correspondent, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, November 2009-April 2010: produced stories for Newsweek, Forbes, and Mint on economics and security in South Asia.
Reporter, Fortune Magazine, June 2009-August 2009: Contributing writer to Fortune and Fortune.com on technology, finance, media and law.
Reporter Associate, Forbes Magazine, June 2008-May 2009: Contributing writer Forbes, ForbesAsia, Forbes.com, on economic policy, energy, technology, marketing and South Asia. Factchecker for Forbes, ForbesAsia; Reporter for global wealth ranking.
Editorial Intern, BusinessWeek, June-August 2005 and June-October 2007: Contributing writer, print and online, on social media, design, philanthropy. Managed Special Reports on Design (2007) and Corporate Philanthropy (2005).
Sept. 2004-May 2008: Student Reporter, Editor and Columnist: Brown Daily Herald, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Clerestory Magazine, College Hill Independent and Cherwell. Reported local and university news. As technology columnist, covered role of web in education and culture. Edited articles by diplomats, academics on development for commercial policy journal.
Intern/Freelancer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Book Publishers, June-Sept. 2006: Screened manuscript submissions; copy-edited books for publication; consulted on behalf of FSG with SONY regarding e-book joint venture.
SKILLS, INTERESTS AND ACTIVITES
Languages: English, French, Hindi, Urdu, Latin
Multimedia: ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Audacity, Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, infographics, podcasting, video, slideshows, web design (HTML, CSS, PHP), data analysis.
Memberships: South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA); Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP)
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